2007
20072007
Dec 31:
S&P 500 Performance on the First Day of A New Year
Dec 23:
Undersaving Still Driving the Economy
Dec 11:
Rally Undermined
Dec 06:
Rally Underway
Nov 28:
Fed Delivers A Wink and A Nod
Nov 27:
Revisiting the Evidence of A Tiring Bull
Nov 25:
Best Buy
Nov 20:
The Market's So Bad, It's Good
Nov 11:
Worthless Dollars Flushing Out the Bulls
Oct 28:
Divergences Deepen, Bulls Stand Firm
Oct 21:
The Fed Cares About Headline Inflation
Oct 21:
Boom/Recession Divergence - Does CAT's Recession Warning Make Sense?
Oct 17:
Divergent Market
Sep 29:
Reflation Around the World
Sep 24:
Financials and Transports Join the Fed Fade
Sep 24:
2007 Update for Post-Labor Day Analysis
Sep 21:
The Fed Fade Continues: Homebuilders and Retailers
Sep 20:
The First Signs of A Fed Fade
Sep 19:
The Fed Gives the Market Credit
Sep 17:
Fuss Fizzles on the Jobs Report? - also, Brokers and CFC
Sep 10:
The Fed Will Be Forced to Cut...and THEN What?
Sep 03:
Apparel Stock Dress Down - and other related observations
Aug 15:
A Big Bounce Coming, But Then What?
Aug 08:
Google Making A Move
Aug 08:
While the Fed Waits Out the Credit Bubble, Countrywide Pounces
Jul 27:
Give This Market Credit
Jul 22:
Interest Rates Headed Back Down?
Jul 21:
Still Hard to Be A Bull
Jul 20:
Google Spunk
Jul 19:
Google Disappoints
Jul 17:
Pair Trade Updates - Homebuilders and Brokers
Jul 11:
Prince Tells the DJ to Keep Playing His Favorite Song
Jul 04:
Brokers Printing Money
Jul 01:
So Much Bad News - And We're Still Not Saving
Jun 30:
Bearish Reset on Housing
Jun 27:
Homebuilder Capitulation
Jun 24:
Economic Data Tries to Cap Rate Surge (a missive do-over!)
Jun 17:
Economic Data Saves Downward Trend in Rates
Jun 12:
Housing Deflation Growing Roots - MTH, SPF
Jun 11:
Finally A Week to Be Bearish
Jun 05:
Again No Spring Savior for Housing - HOV, KBH
Jun 01:
Inflating the Index with Worthless Dollars
May 31:
Has Hype on Gas Prices Reached Fever Pitch Levels?
May 28:
Vision Check-up - BOL, EYE, COO
May 26:
Building Drama - BLG
May 23:
Housing Trade Update
May 23:
Next Break-out Candidate: GILD
May 22:
Anatomy of Another Break-out: TNE
May 21:
Is Amazon Ready to Break Out Again?
Apr 29:
Housing Rally Continues
Apr 28:
Show Me, GOOG
Apr 22:
Housing Stocks Have Bounced
Apr 18:
New Highs Worldwide
Mar 29:
US Steel Steps Up As A Buyer for Lone Star Technologies - Oil and Steel Remain Strong
Mar 29:
Despair Finally Visiting the Doorsteps of the Homebuilders
Mar 22:
Big Ben Brings A Bouquet of Bounty to the Doorstep
Mar 13:
Is the Consumer Finally In Trouble?
Mar 09:
Another Technical Strike Against GOOG - including Dorsey decries the "adoration phase" of the market
Mar 06:
Homebuilder Stocks Are Officially 'Broken'
Feb 28:
Private Equity Prays the Hardest that the Market Has Not Topped Out - including CSCO, XHB
Feb 27:
Memories of the Greenie Daze - including Best Buy (BBY)
Feb 23:
Buy the Bad Housing News Fails Again
Feb 23:
Google's Struggles Continue
Feb 22:
While No One Cares About Inflation, Commodity-Related Stocks Rise Anyway - LSS, VMC, Gold, CAT, CMI
Feb 05:
Driving the Economy with Negative Savings Rates
Feb 02:
Google Options Should Be Sold, Not Bought
Feb 01:
Following the Fed's Finding of a Strong Economy
Jan 29:
Interest Rates Still Going Down
Jan 22:
Big Ben Strikes Midnight for the American Economy
Jan 17:
Saudis Know Oil
Jan 07:
More Homebuilder Warnings Taken Seriously - Hovnanian, Lennar
2006
20062006
Dec 31:
Don't Forget the Saudi Bubble
Dec 21:
Flat Panel Hype Takes Best Buy for a Roundtrip
Dec 19:
Almost A Year of Nowhere for Google
Dec 13:
Best Buy Disappoints As Expected
Dec 10:
Two Trillion Dollars
Dec 01:
Papa Housing Bear Goes Into Hibernation
Nov 29:
What Complacency? (including another look at GOOG)
Nov 27:
The Freedom to Discuss the War In Iraq Freely
Nov 27:
Worrying About Inflation - Again
Nov 22:
One More Eyesore - Advanced Medical Optics
Nov 17:
Your Main Guide for the Current Fed Cycle
Nov 14:
Still No "All Clear" From Housing CEOs - Notes from UBS Conference
Nov 12:
Another Dotcom Bust Payout
Nov 04:
Retail Madness: Jobs Report, BBY, and WFMI
Nov 03:
The NASDAQ Chugs Along Again
Nov 02:
Is It Time to Buy GOOG Yet?
Oct 23:
GOOG vs CAT Redux
Oct 22:
More Bad News for the Bears
Oct 15:
Finally, A Warning Taken Seriously - Centex
Oct 09:
On the Way to the Optometrist
Oct 06:
One Bright Light In Housing - Brookfield Homes
Sep 24:
What Happened to - MSCC, CAT
Sep 21:
Looking Past the Slowdown to the Green On the Other Side
Sep 12:
Stubborn Bulls, Frustrated Bears - Accumulated Topics (additional review of the post Labor Day trading, BBY, CAT, China, BOL, options backdating scandal and BRCM
Sep 12:
Another Delayed Reaction on Lone Star Technologies (LSS)
Sep 12:
Hovnanian Conference Call - And A Look Back At Housing Bubbology, 2005 Style
Sep 10:
Gasoline Freefall
Sep 06:
Rally Done
Sep 05:
The Importance of the Post Labor Day Trade
Sep 04:
Silver Comeback
Sep 02:
Close Enough to the Rally's End
Aug 26:
Toll Brothers Sticks to the Long View - Staying Brave and Remaining Optimistic On the Housing Market
Aug 19:
Skeptical of Productivity Study On Fantasy Football
Aug 17:
Rally's Next and Final Stage
Aug 16:
Investors Herded Back Into Lone Star Technologies (LSS)
Aug 16:
Rallying Over the Fed Hurdle - Quick Technical Review
Aug 13:
The Consumer Lives On - Retail Sales Still Strong
Aug 10:
Perfectly Awful Storm Building - The Latest Pinpricks for Housing
Aug 09:
Another Roundtrip for Lone Star Technologies (LSS)
Aug 08:
The Fed's Not Done Being Done
Aug 04:
Homebuilder Execs Cry Uncle
Aug 04:
Homebuilder Shorts Run for Cover
Aug 02:
Shorts Press Bets Against Housing
Aug 02:
The NASDAQ No Longer Chugs Along
Jul 28:
Slowing Growth, Persistent Inflation
Jul 14:
There Goes Another False Fed Rally
Jul 09:
Another Technical Review of Valero
Jul 07:
Small Builders Choose to Fight
Jul 06:
Another Oil vs Oil Stock Divergence
Jun 30:
A Rally for Stagflation - The Market Gets the Fed Wrong Again
Jun 29:
Review of Letting the Despair Ride: CMX, RSAS, VTSS
Jun 28:
Trying to Ignite A Rally
Jun 23:
The Oversold Oil Patch
Jun 22:
Japan: From Support to Resistance
Jun 16:
Now What?
Jun 15:
Get Ready to Rally - Sort Of
Jun 12:
Has the Fed Already Squashed Speculation and Inflation?
Jun 06:
Fear of Sustainable Growth
Jun 05:
Analysts Finally Sniffing At Bausch and Lomb Again
Jun 05:
No Spring Savior for Housing
Jun 05:
While We Wait for the Next Fed Drama - Links to Some Timely Articles
May 30:
More Signs of the Tiring Bull - A Look at Valero (VLO)
May 24:
Options Backdating is the New Overhang
May 23:
Eulogy for the Housing Stocks
May 22:
Letting the Despair Ride: CMX, RSAS, VTSS
May 21:
Looking for a Silver Lining
May 17:
Guidemap for the New Market Madness
May 17:
Maximum Confusion for A Time of Transition
May 15:
Evidence of A Tiring Bull?
May 12:
The Downtrend Continues for Homebuilder Stocks
May 08:
Letter from Ahmadinejad of Iran to Bush of America -"Just Wanted to Say Hello"
May 08:
Is Bausch & Lomb Oversold?
May 02:
Despair Deep in the Silver Mines
May 02:
A Lot of Noise and No Information - Are We Tired of Reacting to the Fed Yet?
May 01:
$400 for Google Again!??! Already?!?
May 01:
Bottom Falling Out of the Housing Bottom - Meritage vs Centex
Apr 27:
Big Ben Battles Despair From China - Is It Already Time to Buy Oil Back?
Apr 26:
Time to Get Contrary on Oil? - Bush Tries to Talk Down the Market
Apr 21:
Bring Back the Google Parade
Apr 21:
Don't Begrudge the Billionaire His Billions
Apr 19:
Making the Case That No Housing Bubble Exists (includes another Dr. Duru special assessment of the latest Fed-speak)
Apr 18:
More Oily Explanations
Apr 16:
Tickling Threes Redux - Gas Prices On Fire Again
Apr 08:
Japan Breaks Out - Forget the Crash
Mar 30:
Popping Bubbles In Saudi Arabia
Mar 29:
Even Google Knows $400 Is Magic - the floodgates of stock open again
Mar 28:
Nothing New - The Fed News Is No News
Mar 23:
Deal Or No Deal: The Banker Wants to Buy Out the American Autoworker
Mar 12:
The Despair In Google Deepens
Mar 08:
Low Inflation Explained
Mar 06:
Higher Rates Make for a Slippery Bottom for Housing Stocks
Feb 28:
The Despair In Google
Feb 28:
A Steel Pick Revisited
Feb 27:
When Cramer Steps Up to Support A CEO
Feb 24:
Toll Brothers Grades for Various Housing Markets
Feb 24:
When A CEO Steps Up To Save His Stock - Sherwin Williams and the Lead Paint Problem
Feb 23:
The Bottom Is Here for Housing Stocks - Unless... (A Review of A Week of Drama)
Feb 22:
Earnings Fades Signal Fading Market
Feb 21:
Intel Aside
Feb 20:
Fueling Bubbles In Saudi Arabia
Feb 19:
Best Buy Is Taking Radio Shack to the Woodshed
Feb 15:
30 Days and No Crash In Japan
Feb 15:
Housing Stocks Continue Trying To Bottom - Now KB Home Admits Bad News
Feb 13:
Some Housing Bargains Still Exist in the Western World
Feb 13:
The Fed Nudges Resources Downward
Feb 11:
Get More Houses On the Cheap
Feb 10:
The American Consumer Is Still Not Done - The Latest News from Best Buy
Feb 10:
A Steel Pick Validated
Feb 08:
Toll Brothers Taxes Homebuilders (includes details of conference call)
Feb 08:
A High Price to Pay for Prosperity
Feb 05:
Peak Negativity In Housing Stocks
Feb 02:
OK, It's Only 7%
Jan 31:
The Fed Has Now Served Notice to the Resource Boom
Jan 31:
It's Only 12%
Jan 30:
If Only I Got Your Shares Cheaper - Follow-Up On PLCM and PLAY
Jan 26:
Cheap Houses Explained
Jan 26:
Where Is the Inflation?
Jan 24:
Google Defense Stands Firm
Jan 23:
So That Is Why Steel Has Been Strong
Jan 23:
Testing the Google Conviction
Jan 21:
Deep in the Despair
Jan 18:
15 Minutes and No Crash in Japan
Jan 18:
Let the Despair Begin
Jan 17:
Get A House On the Cheap
Jan 12:
Buy the Dips
Jan 10:
Get Back In the House
Jan 09:
The NASDAQ Just Keeps Chugging Along
Jan 03:
Wait Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes